Cornichon Rita
Variety
Cornichon Rita
created by Schnubaerli at 27.09.2021
Seed packet
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
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Description
Pickle 'Rita' (Cucumis sativum) is a very high-yielding variety, which does not become bitter and has resistance to various diseases of cucumbers. The seeds can be grown in pots from April and planted out in the open in May. The germination period is 4 - 8 days.
F1 Hybrid
Not frost resistant
Growing tips
Cucumber high vines or hang down at the raised bed, so the cucumber plants can be planted at a distance of 15-20cm.
Details
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
Medium
Plant distance
30 cm
Row spacing
60 cm
Seeding depth
Not specified
Companion Plants
Aster
Basil
Bean ((Scarlet) runner bean)
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Bean (Hyacinth bean / Lablab-bean)
Bean (Lima Bean)
Bean (Runner bean)
Borage
Caraway / Meridian fennel / Persian cumin
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chervil
Chili
Chives
Common marigold
Coriander / Cilantro
Corn / Maize
Dill
Garlic
Garlic chives
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Lentils
Lettuce (Common chicory)
Lettuce (Lamb's lettuce)
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lettuce (Puntarelle / Cicoria di catalogna / Cicoria asparago)
Lettuce (Radicchio / Italian chicory)
Lettuce (Sugar loaf)
Mint
Nasturtium
Onion
Onion (Spring onion)
Parsley
Parsnip
Pea
Pepper / Paprika
Phlox, flame flower
Soybean
Spinach (Summer)
Spinach (Winter)
Strawberry
Sunflower
Women's coats
Antagonistic Plants
Abyssinian cabbage / Ethiopian mustard
Apple
Aubergine / Eggplant
Blackberry / Brambles
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Buddleja / Butterfly Bushes
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (red cabbage)
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Collard greens
Comfrey
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (Caigua)
Currant
Forsythia
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Gooseberry
Hair cucumbers / snake gourds
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Lavender
Lilac
Lovage
Maples
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Oregano
Ornamental pumpkin
Pear
Pines
Potato
Pumpkin / Squash
Radish
Rapeseed
Rapeseed - Sheer cabbage / Siberian cabbage
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Raspberry
Rosemary
Rudbeckia (Coneflower / Black-eyed-susans)
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sage
Sour cherry / Tart cherry
Spruce trees
Sweet potato
Thyme
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnip-rooted chervil
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - Ribbed cabbage / Portuguese cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage
Walnut family
Wild Cherry / Bird Cherry / Sweet Cherry
Yalta tomatoes
Diseases
Soft rot
Root Rot
Dry rot of crucifers
Grey mold
Fusarium
Downy mildew
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Powdery mildews
Ascochyta blight
Pests
Land snails
Thrips
Caterpillars
Leaf-miner flies
Lygus pratensis
Aphids
Spider mites
White fly
